Holy S***
All my deleted programs are suddenly undeleted and returned back to active and MIXED IN WITH THE SUGGESTIONS I WAS KEEPING TO WATCH. My whole system is a disaster that I don't even know how to fix.

WTF did they do this for? My TiVo was working JUST FINE AFTER THE UPDATE. Now I am the most pissed ever.

HUGE FAIL TIVO, HUGE.

Welcomes to the club.

Make sure you email Margret with your TSN so they can get the TiVo updated back to the software it had before. I guess unless you want to keep it on 20.3

Mine has finished updating again and everything seems oK. At least it didn't screw with the Season Passes.

My Roamio Pro had another Pending restart. I had emailed my TSN to Margret earlier so I guess it will update to the newest version again. It's still on the installation process right now.

When my Roamio Pro had reverted to the previous software, the clock was showing GMT. So it just had not applied the minus four hours for my time zone(EDT) yet until I forced a connection. It was still on the right date. My guide data was also still intact showing the next 12 or 13 days.

That doesn't surprise me. Even if you were to C&DPI, the guide data would have to be populated again, before the SPs would even begin to repopulate. In your case the guide data was still there. I can't say for sure exactly what went on in the software and databases that required the repopulation (or just a scheduling refresh). But, the cause seems obvious.

Thanks for the info on the clock/date. That's far more useful than "off" or "wrong".

Holy S***
All my deleted programs are suddenly undeleted and returned back to active and MIXED IN WITH THE SUGGESTIONS I WAS KEEPING TO WATCH. My whole system is a disaster that I don't even know how to fix.

WTF did they do this for? My TiVo was working JUST FINE AFTER THE UPDATE. Now I am the most pissed ever.

HUGE FAIL TIVO, HUGE.

This is why I have been, and continue to, cross-post my posts basically saying "Hurry up and clear your RD folders on all your TiVos, ASAP!"

The status is "working on it" not "fixed". The author of KMTTG deserves a reward for making it so easy to clear the RD folders on multiple TiVos. When you have 3 or 4TB of drive, and 90% is deleted items, could you imagine doing it manually on one, let alone three or more?

People might have the trojan update (rollback) already downloaded, and just waiting for an opportunity to install. There's also no indication I'm aware of that says if it hasn't yet download, that it won't. Once things get into a queue, it's often hard to stop just one thing, without potentially causing a nationwide service outage, or causing new problems. Sometimes you just have to let existing queues run through, or make things worse...

According to TiVo, less than 200 boxes were rolled back. Getting support by calling TiVo will probably be pointless if you are one of the unlucky ones. Hopefully they have already mapped the 20.4 software to all of those boxes by now.

I am so sorry that some of you experienced a rollback of software! There was an operational issue that caused some TiVo boxes (fewer than 200) to receive an incorrect version of software. We have now assigned those boxes back to the correct version, which will download the next time the box connects to the TiVo Service. (If your box is in the Pending Restart state and installs 20.3.8 when it reboots, please connect again and it will download 20.4.1.)

Luckily I saw this thread before my boxes restarted after they downloaded the reversion. I used KMTTG to clear the RD folder before they restarted, so the only symptom I had was the loss of channel listing. Still a pain, but not as bad as what others experienced with restored deletions, loss of programming, etc. Saw Magaret's post and just forced a connection to TiVo service. Boxes are now updated back to 20.4.1 and appear to be functioning normally. So, still a bit annoying, but worst of it for me thankfully was just having to reset the channel listing. If anyone has a pending restart from earlier today, highly recommend they clear RD folder if possible before the restart. Good luck.

There was an operational issue that caused some TiVo boxes (fewer than 200) to receive an incorrect version of software.

I'm trying to do the math here, and find it hard to believe "fewer than 200" were affected, given how many reports came in on a forum that the vast majority of TiVo owners don't even know exists (or so I've been told from time to time, how that is the case, by others on here).

I'm trying to do the math here, and find it hard to believe "fewer than 200" were affected, given how many reports came in on a forum that the vast majority of TiVo owners don't even know exists (or so I've been told from time to time, how that is the case, by others on here).

Maybe those rolled back were folks that signed up for the early release via the priority list?

I subsequently disconnected my Ethernet cable to be safe, but it'd connected Friday morning and not rolled back, and I was on the priority list. So it's not that.

I'd appreciate a little more detail from TiVo/Margret regarding this "200 boxes" notion, how sure they are, etc. Said another way, I don't want to plug my Ethernet cable back in only to then be rolled back because "oops."

I'd appreciate a little more detail from TiVo/Margret regarding this "200 boxes" notion, how sure they are, etc. Said another way, I don't want to plug my Ethernet cable back in only to then be rolled back because "oops."

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Originally Posted by TiVoMargret

.... There was an operational issue that caused some TiVo boxes (fewer than 200) to receive an incorrect version of software. We have now assigned those boxes back to the correct version, which will download the next time the box connects to the TiVo Service.

Releases are assigned at the box level. I have no doubt they can query who all was effected. Reading between the lines though, an operational issue sounds like a nice way of saying the problem existed between the keyboard and chair assigning the update. For their sake, hopefully its not the same person that goofed up some TiVoHDs recently

No repeat of program loss/moving/resurrection and my channel settings were not changed (and are still not back to the way I want because after an hour of going through it last night, I lost patience; will finish today).

Well, I seem to have been hit by a rollback... and it also farked with my channel list, resetting all the channels I had marked as unavailable as available again, which is probably more annoying (getting the channel list correct is a majorly time consuming task).

what else were you expecting? what other info will help restore your equipment? the rollback was identified and a correction issued within 2 days. while i'm glad it didn't happen to my equipment, and sorry others had the headache, it was addressed quickly.

of course, if this had happened a few centuries earlier, off with their heads!

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